Friends Don’t Let Friends Vote For Dems’ Bid To Destroy SCOTUS

Democrats are planning to do a lot of radical things if given control of Congress this fall. But at the top of that list is none other than to destroy the U.S. Supreme Court.

Throughout the past several days, leading Democrats have espoused support for varying measures aimed at targeting the high court’s conservative justices and the court’s makeup.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., kicked things off on Saturday while speaking to Iowa Democrats in Des Moines alongside Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a major proponent of packing the Supreme Court. Throughout his roughly 15-minute diatribe, the Ocean State’s junior senator said that he and Raskin — both leading Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees — are already colluding on how to maximize their investigative power, and that one of their main targets will be the high court.

“We’re gonna put a lot of attention right away to the Supreme Court …We need to do a lot of investigating because not enough people know the story about how this court got captured by a bunch of creepy right-wing billionaires,” Whitehouse said while echoing conspiracies he’s previously promoted about the high court.

Seemingly based off dishonest media hit jobs against the conservative justices’ finances, Whitehouse went on to signal his intent to enact a Supreme Court “ethics program” should Democrats retake the Senate. He further espoused support for implementing 18-year term limits for all justices, which he added would apply retroactively.

Whitehouse has served as one of Senate Democrats’ leading attack dogs against the Supreme Court’s conservative justices over the past few years. While the party’s allies at ProPublica and the New York Times launched frivolous hatchet jobs against Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the Rhode Island senator led the investigative charge in the upper chamber — an embarrassing effort that amounted to a total nothingburger report.

But Whitehouse is hardly the only Democrat forecasting his party’s intent to wage war on the high court.

Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. — who would be out of a job next year if not for South Carolina Republicans’ redistricting cowardice — appeared on NBC News’ Meet the Press the following day to voice support for increasing the number of justices from nine to 13. Adding four additional justices would conveniently give leftists an outright majority on the court.

“Former Vice President Kamala Harris shares some of your criticisms, clearly. She’s called for expanding the Supreme Court from nine justices to 13. Do you support adding four more seats to the Supreme Court, Congressman?” left-wing host Kristen Welker asked.

“Yes, I do. I think that we are in a position now that calls from some significant actions taken by the Congress, and we ought to expand — and 13 is a pretty good number,” Clyburn replied.

Clyburn’s remarks come weeks after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries appeared on the same program to all but guarantee Democrats will move to pack the Supreme Court if given power this November. The New York leftist said that Raskin and other court-packing supporters on the House Judiciary Committee “are going to take the lead on what dramatic reform of the Supreme Court looks like.”

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Contrary to their claims otherwise, Democrats’ gambit is nothing more than a power play designed to cripple public trust in the court and ultimately change its makeup for political gain.

For decades, leftists used the high court as an avenue to shoehorn their policy agenda into law via activist rulings (see Roe v. Wade and the concocted “constitutional right” to abortion). Now, because they no longer have ideological control of the court and those activist rulings are being overturned, the left has resorted to attacking SCOTUS and its conservative members. This also includes threats of left-wing violence, which have become a persistent theme since the leak of the court’s 2022 Dobbs decision.

A vote for Democrats this November doesn’t just reward these kinds of repulsive and dishonest tactics. It’s a stamp of approval to give Democrats license to wage war against and destroy the Supreme Court — all for the crime of doing its job.

Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood